Flex International USA, Inc. of 6201 America Center, San Jose, CA, USA, and all other Flex group companies (hereafter Flex) takes its obligations to protect privacy and personal information very seriously.
Your personal information is collected by Flex Int (“we”/”us”/”our”). You can contact us at hrcompliance@flex.com. If you have any questions or complaints in relation to the use of your personal information or this Recruitment Notice, you can contact our Data Privacy Officer at: chiefprivacyofficer@flex.com.
We collect, the information below about you during the recruitment process. If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we will not be able to progress your application.
This information is either (a) provided by you; (b) obtained from third parties through the application and recruitment process; (c) obtained from public sources, such as LinkedIn, or (d) created by us in the course of the recruitment process.
We use your personal information to progress the recruitment process, assess and make a decision about your suitability for a role, to communicate with you and to carry out reference checks. We will also use your information to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
We will use the information collected from you because:
We will process your special categories of personal data to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments for any disabilities during the recruitment process; (2) for equal monitoring purposes; (3) comply with any legal or regulatory obligation.
We will use special categories of personal information collected about you because: (1) you have provided your explicit written consent;(2) we need to do so to carry out our legal obligations; (3) it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence or legal claims on in relation to court cases; [(4) there is a substantial public interest;] (5) it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent.
As part of the recruitment process we carry out criminal background checks. We use these checks (1) to assess your suitability for a regulated role; (2) to protect your interests, our interests and third party interests; (3) because it is necessary in relation to legal claims. We are allowed to use your personal information in this way where it is necessary to carry out our employment rights and obligations and we will always process your data in accordance with applicable local law.
Following a [background check/ psychometric test] an automated decision will be reached on whether to progress your application or offer you employment based on whether yours satisfy our benchmark criteria. If you disagree with the decision you are entitled to contest this by contacting us at following email address: chiefprivacyofficer@flex.com
We will only share your personal information with the following third parties for the purposes of processing your application: (1) employment agencies, (2) background check and online test providers, and (3) regulators and competent authorities. We will also share personal data within our group for the purposes of administration, accounting and reporting purposes.
We will retain your personal information for the duration of the recruitment process and for the length of any applicable limitation period for claims which might be brought against us later.
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to other flex entities outside the EU for the purposes of management and administration of the recruitment process subject to us implementing appropriate safeguards. If you would like to obtain copies of such safeguards you can request them from us on the contact details above.
Your rights: You have the following rights in connection to your data: the rights of access, correction, erasure, objection, restriction, transfer, and the right to withdraw consent and to complain to a Supervisory Authority.
Note: While this global policy is designed to deliver consistent and efficient information to candidates on global basis, all information will always be processed in accordance with applicable local law.